Improved washing-machine



initrd tete WILLIAM ARNOLD, OF PAWTUOKET, RHODE ISLAND.

Letters Patent No. 96,864, dated .November 16, 1869.

IMPROVED WASHING-MACHINE.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, WILLIAM ARNOLD, of Pawtucket, in the countyof Providence, andv State of Rhode Island, have invented an Improved Washing- Machine; and do hereby declare that the following is a full and correct description, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, making a part of this specification.

The nat-ure of my invention consists in furnishing an additional bearing or step below the wash-wheel, with projecting ring, when attached t0 a movable cover; also, in placing a centre-piece between the revolving pins, so that the clothes may move in an annular space, and also come in contact with vertical rolls or corrugations.

To enable those skilled in the art to make and use .my invention,I will proceed to describe its construc- This centre-piece may be made slightly conical, as

represented, and may be either held fast to the bottom of the suds-box, or it may be allowed to turn loosely,

as around a central spindle, G.

The shaft E, which carries the Wash-wheel, is also supported by a bearing, h, above the gear. y

In the corners of the suds-box, as shown in iig. 2, I place vertical rolls, as b b b, or vertieally-tlnted boards, l ll.

This arrangement tends to give a rubbing 'action upon the clothes, the centre-piece F occupying the Witnesses:

S. SCHOLFIELD, GEORGE J. GIBSON. 

